Software Piracy
Meaning of software piracy means that you sell or get illegal software. Either you have not bought the original software or you have stole it or downloaded from an illegal website. The main problem that people are uploading there softwares of illegal websites. About 96% of Chinese people use illegal software and only 4% of Chinese people use legal software. (Statistic Link) . Example you upload your original Microsoft Word software so that other people around the world can download it. This would be called software piracy because I dont think that Microsoft would like that they are there to make profit and also they can sue you for that.
Piracy News
Last year september 2010 LG in Russia was caught for piracy. They say LG was selling illegal copies of Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat and other programs. Adobe confirm that LG had asked for License but Adobe did not approve it. LG was caught with more than 60 employees had got illegal software's. For Adobe it has caused a damage of $66,000. Other well known companies like Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs, SAP, Corel and Cisco also claim that LG is using and selling illegal copies of software. LG however denies that they were not not using or selling illegal copies. (Article)
Meaning of software piracy means that you sell or get illegal software. Either you have not bought the original software or you have stole it or downloaded from an illegal website. The main problem that people are uploading there softwares of illegal websites. About 96% of Chinese people use illegal software and only 4% of Chinese people use legal software. (Statistic Link) . Example you upload your original Microsoft Word software so that other people around the world can download it. This would be called software piracy because I dont think that Microsoft would like that they are there to make profit and also they can sue you for that.
Piracy News
Last year september 2010 LG in Russia was caught for piracy. They say LG was selling illegal copies of Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat and other programs. Adobe confirm that LG had asked for License but Adobe did not approve it. LG was caught with more than 60 employees had got illegal software's. For Adobe it has caused a damage of $66,000. Other well known companies like Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs, SAP, Corel and Cisco also claim that LG is using and selling illegal copies of software. LG however denies that they were not not using or selling illegal copies. (Article)